Musical Murals is a single interactive social event for the Tucson community that incorporates visual art and live music while promoting community connections and a healthy lifestyle. In partnership with Meet Me at Maynards, the University of Arizona Fred Fox School of Music will have 10 chamber groups all around downtown Tucson along a route that […]
read moreSOLEDAD tells the story of a young woman from Central America who was imprisoned in the Eloy Detention Facility when she sought asylum in the United States in 2017. Soledad set out on a perilous journey from her homeland after enduring horrific persecution where she was kidnapped, sex-trafficked, tortured and nearly killed. Attorney Shefali Milczarek-Desai, who […]
read moreJennifer Ling Datchuk will discuss how her studio practice is informed by the power in materials like porcelain, hair, and domestic objects. She will explore how research, personal narratives, lived experiences, and oral histories are foundations for making work about identity. Jennifer Ling Datchuk is an artist born in Warren, Ohio and raised in Brooklyn, […]
read moreAnalia Saban will give a comprehensive lecture about her art practice during the last 16 years, since her days as a graduate student until today. Through her work, she will speak about her interest in materiality, technology, and how the history of materials influences Art History. This lecture is made possible by a collaboration between […]
read moreA chicken with the outline of a bikini browned onto its crispy skin sticks its legs into the air. A woman’s naked body is labeled with the names for meat cuts. A plump pig with lipstick and an apron is serving BBQ. “Sexy Salad and Manly Meat” is part of our “At the Table” Speaker […]
read moreBeginning in 2019, Oregon-based multidisciplinary artist, Malia Jensen, installed six carved salt-lick sculptures and eighteen motion-activated cameras across Oregon, monitoring the wildlife interactions and surrounding landscape for one year. Jensen will discuss the Nearer Nature Project and resulting in six hour surveillance video, Worth Your Salt, and share related work and ideas. Malia Jensen (b.1966, Honolulu, Hawaii) is a Portland-based artist known […]
read moreThe local food movement aspires to create close associations between consumers, communities, and the peoples and lands that produce the foods they eat. Drawing on over five years of ethnographic research, the speakers will consider how the value propositions underlying local food are and are not being conveyed through visual narratives. Pieces from the collection […]
read moreBe sure to bring an appetite for this month’s round of Virtual Art Trivia Happy Hour. In honor of the exhibition The Art of Food: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, all of the works featured will be food-themed. As usual, the multiple-choice questions will be fun for all art lovers […]
read moreJoin us for the World Premiere of HELP WANTED, an original network-style comedy pilot created by University of Arizona School of Theatre, Film & Television students – the culmination of a Sitcom Boot Camp guided by award-winning director Brian Levant (Happy Days, Mork & Mindy, Beethoven, The Spy Next Door). The live in-person table read […]
read moreLos Angeles-based artists rafa esparza and Timo Fahler will give a lecture focusing on collaboration and experimentation within their shared and individual artistic practices. The artists will present examples of past projects initiated together, participated in jointly, and undertaken respectively with other collaborators leading up to their forthcoming project, “were-:NENETECH FORMS,” presented at MOCA Tucson and the […]
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